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Everyone, including adults and children, joined in the work. The efficiency was very high and a huge area was cleared in a short while. Except for a break at noon to eat something, everyone worked until sunset and night fell.

The results are more than half of such a large area of ​​wasteland has been cleared, and the rest can be completed in one day at most. The hills of plants that were cleared were not wasted. They were spread on the ground and exposed to the sun. After drying, they became good firewood.

Everyone was tired but happy, and even the simple meal in the evening tasted much better than before. This night was filled with hope that everyone would sleep soundly and wake up early the next day.

In addition to taking care of the children and preparing breakfast, men and women of all ages spontaneously went out to weed and do other work.

Gulan is one of the people who makes breakfast. She doesn't have any heroic baggage. Being a hero is also very tiring. She has children to raise, and she will work more vigorously if she has a full stomach. Breakfast is still thick porridge, but it is cooked with chicken soup and shredded chicken. Each person has an egg, pot stickers and pickles.

After eating and drinking enough and taking a break, Gulan took the children to join the weeding army. Otherwise, if you exert yourself right after eating, your stomach won't be able to take it. For Gulan, who wanted to take good care of her health, this kind of thing would naturally not be allowed by her.

The entire cleaning process went much faster than they expected and was almost completed before lunch.

When Liu Lin came with a large team in the afternoon, the whole wasteland had changed drastically, and Liu Lin was stunned. After hearing the words of the guards left behind, Liu Lin couldn't help but look at these thin villagers differently. There is enormous energy hidden in his seemingly thin body. No wonder he was able to walk alive from Linzhou, where there were starving people everywhere, to Yunzhou.

Liu Lin's arrival, especially the large team he brought with him, gave the people of Lijia Village, who were removing the few remaining weeds, more motivation.

Under the watchful eyes of Liu Lin and his team, the remaining cleanup was completed at incredible speed.

In the following time, in addition to the craftsmen who were building the house, the material transport teams were busy going back and forth until nightfall, and the wasteland was filled with mountains of materials.

Before Liu Lin left, he specifically looked for the village chief. The remaining materials would be delivered one by one in the coming days, and he asked the village chief to prepare them. If nothing goes wrong, they could start building the house tomorrow.

The village chief nodded repeatedly, with uncontrollable joy in his eyes. After Liu Lin left, a village meeting was immediately held.

In order to be fair, the village chief chooses a unified homestead for each family, but each family decides what kind of house to build. After the house is built, the money is settled based on the materials and labor used. Of course, if you want a larger homestead, that's not impossible, but you'll have to pay for the extra part out of your own pocket.

Everyone had no objection to this. The only thing left was the question of where to build the house. We just needed to decide tonight and tell the village chief to register tomorrow morning. There aren't many problems for families with a small number of people, but families with a large population, like Old Man Li's, have to think carefully.

Before fleeing the famine, the house in Lijia Village did not seem small at first, and it was considered one of the largest in Lijia Village. But as the sons got married and grandchildren were born, the population grew and the house became increasingly cramped. Although the unified residential land planned by the village chief is not small and is much larger than the home before fleeing famine, opportunities are rare. Although more money must be paid, the price is really not expensive.

After the meeting, Old Man Li returned to his tent and started discussing with his wife, sons and daughters-in-law. Finally, everyone reached a consensus and decided to add more silver all at once.

Speaking of silver, both Old Man Li and other families in the village were grateful to Gulan again. If it weren't for Gulan's companionship, who would have dared to think that they could still earn money while fleeing from the famine? I'm afraid that being able to survive in the end would be the best outcome. Now that they have money, they have the confidence to get it all at once, otherwise they would have to thank the ancestors for having a place to stay.

That night, except for those with a small population, basically all the people in the village with a large population made the same decision as Old Man Li's family. They were prepared to pay more money to buy a residential plot. Even if they could not build the whole house at once, they could prepare it slowly later.

For her future plans, Gulan's house must be as large as possible. Although the large tracts of land behind the village belong to her, she cannot be unsociable, so she decided to live in the village.

The next day, when Liu Lin came again with a bunch of materials, the residential land of all the villagers had been registered by Village Chief Li. He handed it over to Liu Lin without any trouble. With him, a lot of procedures could be saved. None of the villagers were present in person for the household registration matter.

Unexpectedly, this time Liu Lin did not answer the call, but asked Village Chief Li to go with him. Village Chief Li understood what was going on as soon as he thought about it, and looked at Liu Lin with emotion.

Lijia Village will take root here in the future. It is impossible to trouble others for everything. So Chief Sergeant Liu takes him to meet people and expand his network!

Village chief Li was so excited that he didn't know what to say and could only nod repeatedly. So, Village Chief Li started working on the foundation without even bothering to start the construction, and followed Liu Lin to the government office. After running back and forth twice, he got the house deed done and came back to have the household owner put his fingerprints on it. Then he and Liu Lin were busy for a whole half day before he completed the processing of all the house deeds in Lijia Village.

After finishing the job, Village Chief Li enthusiastically invited the clerk from the Ministry of Revenue of the government office and Liu Lin to have a meal at the restaurant. In the long run, it seems that the money was worth spending.

While Village Chief Li was busy, work also started on the wasteland. The masters began to dig the foundation according to the marked homestead space and the requirements of each homeowner. Liu Lin invited all the craftsmen who could build the house, and together with the men from Lijia Village, the digging of the foundation went smoothly under the guidance of the craftsmen. In half a day, all 71 residential sites were excavated.

Although Gulan has the smallest population, the largest residential land, and the most houses, the residential foundation was completed first. As the prince's savior, he was naturally treated differently. Before Liu Lin left, he specially assigned the best house-building team in the state capital to Gulan. Strength lies in numbers. In just one morning, these people dug out the foundation of a yard.

According to Gulan's own plan, the house has a main house, an ear room, a side room, a storeroom, a kitchen, a firewood room, a clean room, a toilet, and the most important stable. Gulan even planned a cattle pen. The foundation of the main house was the largest. According to Gulan's idea, it should be built to be bright and spacious. It would be uncomfortable to live in a cramped house.

Two more side rooms were built on the left and right sides of the main house, and then side rooms were built on the east and west sides. Like the main house, their foundations were equally spacious. The kitchen, firewood room and storehouse are built between the east side side room and the ear room, and the space has the same specifications. As for the clean room, it is next to the corner room on the west side, the servant room is built in the backyard, and so is the stable.

In short, everyone was busy as if they were tireless. The men were digging the foundation, while the women, led by the wife of the village chief and several other aunts in the village, were preparing lunch. According to the agreement signed before starting work, there are no meals in the morning and evening, but lunch is provided. However, there are no requirements on the food. For this purpose, Li Youzhi and Li Da took the silver exchanged by every household in the village and drove to the city to make some purchases.

Building a house is physical work. Although the food cannot be very good, there must be some meat. After a trip to the city, the two of them brought back a cart of food, a pig and a lot of vegetables.